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Originally Posted by Dotwhack
How come companies haven't given pay rises in line with the inflation on food and increased shopping bills. Even with my wage increase I'm still considerably out of pocket to this time last year.
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Because businesses can't afford it either. Their margins are squeezed just like we are domestically. It would mean they'd have to put their prices up and their customers would go elsewhere. And that would cause even greater inflation than we have now.
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Originally Posted by Dotwhack
Diesel cost me 120p this morning - the trouble is there are NO alternatives. Public transport in my area isn't available to get me to work and back and no one else lives in my neck of the woods to do a car share. What are we all supposed to do? Continue losing money every month - thats not going to help the credit crunch!
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But you know that Gordon Brown "feels your pain"! He said so. If he actually had to buy petrol himself we might believe him (he's had a ministerial car for the past 11 years - and he doesn't drive anyway). Politicians conveniently overlook the fact that public transport is woefully inadequate outside London and non-existant in many rural areas.